[PDFBOX-3138] PDTextField doesn't accept any Hebrew characters as new value

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: AcroForm, FontBox
• Environment: Eclipse 4.2.2, Windows 7 Pro, JRE 1.8.0_05
• Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun
• Reporter: Gilad Denneboom
• Created: 29/Nov/15 21:24
• Updated: 09/May/18 07:31

Description

Trying to set a UTF-8 encoded Hebrew string as the value of a PDTextField fails with the following exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No glyph for U+05D7 in font AdobeHebrew-Regular
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1CFont.encode(PDType1CFont.java:300)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.encode(PDFont.java:283)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream.showText(PDPageContentStream.java:341)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PlainTextFormatter.format(PlainTextFormatter.java:213)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.insertGeneratedAppearance(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:373)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceContent(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:237)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceValue(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:144)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField.constructAppearances(PDTextField.java:263)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTerminalField.applyChange(PDTerminalField.java:221)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField.setValue(PDTextField.java:218)
	at SetHebrewFieldValueTest.main(SetHebrewFieldValueTest.java:22)

I've tried using multiple fonts for the field, all of which can handle Hebrew characters just fine, and got the same results in all of them.
See attached files for a demonstration of the issue.

Issue Links

• depends upon: PDFBOX-3746 Improve font encoding for interactive form fields with capable embedded font